See the complete transcript of a YouTube video on one page. Read it, search it, quote it.
Read a video instead of watching it
Every public YouTube video with captions has a transcript hiding behind a small button that most viewers never notice. Even when you find it, YouTube shows the text in a cramped sidebar next to the player: you cannot select it all at once, searching inside it is clumsy, and it disappears the moment you click away.
This page takes that same transcript and lays it out properly. The whole text of the video sits in one scrollable view with a timestamp on each line. You can select everything with one shortcut, search it with your browser, copy a quote with its exact time, or download the entire thing as a text file. No account, no fee, no limit on video length.
Made for people who work with words
A transcript is often more useful than the video it came from. Researchers cite the exact sentence instead of "around minute 42". Students turn lecture recordings into notes they can actually revise from. Writers quote interviews accurately. Language learners read along while listening, which is one of the fastest ways to train an ear for natural speech.
When the raw text is not enough, send the video to our Telegram bot with one tap. It condenses the transcript into an AI summary, translates it into your language, wraps it into a clean PDF, or handles a whole list of videos at once. The transcript on this page stays free either way.
How it works
Paste the video link into the field above.
Press Get transcript and wait a couple of seconds.
Read the full text with timestamps, use Ctrl+F to search inside it, copy or download it.
Need more than text? Our Telegram bot summarizes, translates, exports PDF and processes videos in bulk.
On YouTube itself you open the description, press "Show transcript" and read it in a narrow side panel. This page shows the same text in one full-width view that you can search, select, copy and save, which the built-in panel makes awkward.
Can I read the transcript without watching the video?
Yes, that is the point of this page. Skim a one-hour interview in five minutes, find the section you care about by its timestamp, and only then decide if the video is worth watching.
Why does the transcript have odd punctuation?
Auto-generated captions often come without sentence breaks, because they are produced by speech recognition. Creator-uploaded captions read much better. The text you see here is exactly what the caption track contains.
Can I get a transcript of a private or age-restricted video?
No. The video must be public. Private, unlisted-with-restrictions and some age-gated videos do not expose their caption tracks, so there is nothing to fetch.
Does the transcript include timestamps?
Yes, every line carries the time it is spoken. You can switch timestamps off with one click if you want plain flowing text for pasting into a document.